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Byzantine Empire - successor state to the Roman Empire (see under Rome), also called Eastern Empire and East Roman Empire. It was named after Byzantium, which Emperor Constantine I rebuilt (a.d. 330) as Constantinople and made the capital of the entire Roman Empire. Although not foreseen at the time, a division into Eastern and Western empires became permanent after the accession (395) of


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    History of the Byzantine Empire » Read Now

    by Charles Diehl, George B. Ives. 199 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power » Read Now

    by J.A.S. Evans. 346 pgs.

    The Age of Justinian examines the reign of the great emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Theodora, who advanced from the theatre to the throne. Here we find chronicled the origins of the split between East and West, the results of which are still with us. The book looks at the social structure...
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    Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 » Read Now

    by Lynda Garland. 344 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do.
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    Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204 » Read Now

    by John Haldon. 390 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The history of the Byzantine Empire is also the history of its ability to defend itself and to organise for war. This work offers a study of warfare and the Byzantine army in the social context.
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    The Russian Attack on Constantinople in 860 » Read Now

    by Alexander A. Vasiliev. 245 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Byzantine Studies and Other Essays » Read Now

    by Norman H. Baynes. 394 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 » Read Now

    by Paul Stephenson. 352 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This is a narrative political history of the northern Balkans in the period 900-1204. It treats the Balkans as the frontier of the Byzantine empire, and considers imperial relations with the peoples living in the Balkans, including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians. It also considers...
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    Art of the Byzantine Era » Read Now

    by David Talbot Rice. 286 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire » Read Now

    by J. M. Hussey. 408 pgs.

    This interpretive analysis describes the important role of the medieval Orthodox Church during its formative period. The first section discusses landmarks in ecclesiastical affairs within the Empire and the increasingly influential contacts with neighbors. Part II examines the nature and structure...
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